Weed-cutter.



No. 802,626. PATENTED 00124, 1905. A. N. CARLSON.

WEED CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR 8, 1905.

amuvanfoz I altar/news UNITED STATES PATENT AXEL N. CARLSON, OF MGPHERSON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN E. CARLSON, OF McPI-IERSON, KANSAS.

WEED'-CUTTIER.

To (all whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that 1, AXEL N. CARLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at McPherson, in the county of McPherson and State of Kansas'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in feed-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to cutting mechanisms designed chiefly for destroying weeds and other obnoxious growths and which may be used to advantage in cutting down volunteer grain or for cultivating, as may be desired.

The invention consists, essentially, of a cutter of peculiar formation comprising oppositely-inclined blades, an upwardly and rearwardly inclined standard, and a laterally-deflected trash-bar projected from the inclined portion of the standard adjacent to its juncture with the cutter-blades.

The invention also further consists of the novel features and structural details, which hereinafter will be more particularly set forth, illustrated, and finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cutter embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, showing it attached to a supporting-bar. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the cutter. Fig. 4 is a front View of the cutter.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The blades 42 and 43 of the cutter incline in opposite directions, and the standard E, carrying the cutter, is attached at its lower end to the latter at the juncture of the blades and inclines upwardly and rearwardly, as shown a4 1, thence vertically, as indicated at 45, and terminating in a bent portion 46, which is widened and adapted to overlap the support ing-bar, to which it is attached in any substantial manner. A projection 47, extended rearward from the vertical portion 4:5 of the standard, is adapted to enter an opening in the front portion of the supporting-bar, so as to strengthen the connection between said standard and bar and to resist lateral strain.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 8, 1905. Serial No. 254,563.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

A bar 48 projects from the inclined portion 44 of the standard E in an upward, rearward, and lateral direction and terminates a short distance below the framebar to which the cutters are attached and is designed to catch the weeds and trash and carry the same for a short distance until released from the bar 48 from ridingover the upper end thereof when it catches upon the vertical portion &5 of the standard and clears the same by reason of the unequal traction upon the end portions. The trash carried along by the bar 48 has its end portions of equal length, and such trash as may be caught by the vertical portion l5 of the standard E after clearing the bar 48 will have these end portions of unequal length by reason of the lateral distance of the upper extremity of the bar 48 from the part 45, and the traction upon the dragging ends being unequal will result in ultimate disengagement of the trash from the standard E, as will be readily comprehended.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a weed-cutter, a standard comprising a lower inclined portion and an upper vertical portion, a blade at the lower end of said standard, and a trash-bar projected from the inclined portion of the standard at an upward, rearward and lateral inclination and terminating in a plane between the upper and lower ends of said vertical portion of the standard. 2

2. The herein-described cutter comprising oppositely-inclined blades of unequal length, a standard projected from the blades at their point of juncture and inclined upwardly and rearwardly thence vertically and terminating in a laterally-extended right-angular portion and a trash-bar projected from the inclined portion of the standard adjacent to its juncture with the blades and inclined upwardly and rearwardly and laterally, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AXEL N. GARLSON. Witnesses:

Herman E. ISAACSON', VVM. R. CARLsoN. 

